DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 281.

DOMINICAN MISSIONS.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procuralor in this
Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East.

[7th May, 1886.]

1. This Ordinance may, be cited as the Dominican
Missions Ordinance.

2. The procurator in this Colony for the Dominican
Missions having placed in the hands of the Governor
satisfactory proof of his appointment shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong for
the Doininican Missions in the Far East', and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue
and be sued in all courts in this ColonY, and shall and inav
have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break,
change, alter, and make anew as to the said corporation
may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full power
to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy-
any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what
nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this
Colony, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any
lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony,
or on the mortgages or debentures, stock, funds, shares,
or securities of any corporation or company, carrying on
business or having an office in this Colony,, and also to
purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels
whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby, further
empowered by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convev,
assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, dernise, reassign,
transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stock,
funds, and securities, goods and chattels, that maN~ be
vesled in the said corporation, upon such terms as to the
said corporation may seem fit : Provided that due notice
of appointment as Procurator in this Colony,-, and of the
proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the
Governor, shall be given in the Gazette.





3. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
or the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of
the said Procurator or his attorney duly authorized, and
shall also be signed by him. [4

4. Nothing, in this Ordinance shall affect or bc
deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His
Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or
corporate or of any other persons except such as are men-
tioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or
under thern. [5
Originally 14 of 1886. Fraser 9 of 1886. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 14 of 1886. Fraser 9 of 1886. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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